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04/30/09
Body Heat (1981)
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Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 35
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: During one hot and sultry Florida summer, a shady lawyer launches into a torrid relationship with a lonely woman married to a rich businessman. As their relationship grows, she decides to enlist... [More]
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Reviews for Body Heat
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05/20/08
Top CriticSteamy, explicit and highly-charged film noir reworked with an 1980s gloss.
02/08/08
Top CriticStill regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponenet of how noir has developed.
02/08/08
Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details.
02/08/08
Top CriticAn excellent crime drama in the style of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett.
02/08/08
Top CriticThough Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir.
02/08/08
Top CriticSuspenseful and supersexy.
11/13/06
...builds slowly, then grabs you and never lets go.
10/20/06
No review available.
10/05/06
The setup is classic noir that follows the rigid three-act screenplay structure that only a Hollywood newcomer could stringently abide by, and here it works
09/28/06
There's no denying the narrative confidence that brings the film to its unfashionably certain double-whammy conclusion.
06/24/06
Top CriticNo review available.
03/18/06
No review available.
08/13/05
Welcome to Hollywood Mr. Kasdan.
01/01/05
No review available.
11/04/04
Steamiest movie ever--still
10/19/04
No review available.
09/18/04
Body Heart mixes sex with murder and comes up with a steamy brew of surprises.
01/31/04
No review available.
01/23/04
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